Sonia Gandhi will go to Hyderabad on 23 November to marketing campaign for the Congress forward of the upcoming Meeting elections in Telangana. Sonia is predicted to land within the state on the Begumpet airport by a particular plane at round 5 pm on Friday. The UPA chairperson will then go to the Medchal constituency assembly venue the place she is going to tackle a public assembly.

Congress leaders in Telangana have been eager that Sonia ought to marketing campaign in Gajwel, which is TRS chief and caretaker chief minister Okay Chandrashekhar Rao’s residence turf. Nonetheless, the central management felt that she ought to marketing campaign in areas the place the celebration is robust and might additional enhance its possibilities together with her rallies.

The Congress’ resolution to maintain Sonia out of KCR’s residence turf is also an indication of the celebration backing off and anticipating that KCR could assault it for taking credit score for forming Telangana. Whereas it was below Sonia’a management that the Congress Working Committee had agreed to the creation of a separate state of Telangana, KCR has been invoking Telangana satisfaction in the midst of the election marketing campaign.

The Congress is at present in a ‘grand’ alliance with the Telugu Desam Get together (TDP), which is led by N Chandrababu Naidu. Telangana Jana Samithi (TJS) and Communist Get together of India (CPI) are the opposite members of the alliance. Recently, Naidu has been on the forefront of making a united anti-BJP entrance by assembly numerous Opposition leaders.

After Sonia, Rahul will even marketing campaign within the state from 28 to 29 November and once more on three December. Nonetheless, Telangana Congress leaders need to ensure that Sonia addresses public conferences in each north and south Telangana. “We expect the political environment to alter in favour of the Congress as soon as Sonia appeals to the individuals of Telangana to vote for the Congress. The individuals of Telangana are indebted to her for fulfilling their decades-long dream of a separate state,” a senior Congress leader told The Times of India.

The Congress is claiming that the individuals of the state know that it was Sonia who fulfilled their decade-long dream of statehood for Telangana. The celebration feels that the agricultural voters, particularly the ladies and youth, really feel let down by the TRS authorities, and can thus establish themselves with its marketing campaign.

Thus for the Congress, “vote for Sonia Gandhi” — who made the Telangana dream come true — is a serious ballot slogan. “We’ll urge individuals to vote for Sonia, who had put the celebration’s future at stake in Andhra Pradesh to maintain her promise of a separate Telangana. She took a courageous resolution and didn’t succumb to the sturdy lobbying from Andhra leaders who’re recognized to be aggressive,” a senior party leader told The Hindu.

Rahul had earlier campaigned in Telangana on 20 October and the celebration chief has now proposed to carry two big public conferences, one in undivided Warangal district and the opposite in Karimnagar.

Nonetheless, it is not going to be clean crusing for the Congress, given KCR’s all-out-attack on the grand outdated celebration. Many noticed the TRS chief’s transfer to dissolve the Meeting as a bid to additional cement his energy place within the state by avoiding a conflict with the final elections in 2019.

Additionally, the Congress has burned its palms in Andhra Pradesh by selecting to comparatively sideline the feelings of individuals affected by the bifurcation. It was not way back that TDP MPs, whereas protesting in opposition to the Centre for ignoring the calls for of the individuals and the federal government of Andhra Pradesh, had additionally blamed the Congress for contributing to the beginning of this subject. Due to this fact, the TDP’s stand on separate statehood for Telangana is another chink in the armour of this grand alliance or ‘mahakutami.‘ On this context, it might be attention-grabbing to see if Sonia’s presence throughout the election marketing campaign would be capable of flip the tide within the Congress’ favour.